| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11704 |
| QUOTATION: | I can’t accept “our nervous age,” since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. letter, February 28, 1895, to. E.M. Savrova-Yust. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 6, p. 30, “Nauka” (1976). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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